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Lake Karachay (Russian: Карача́й), sometimes spelled Karachai or Karachaj, was a small lake in the southern Ural Mountains in central Russia.Starting in 1951, the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40).
Built in the late 1940s, Mayak was one of Russia's most prominent nuclear weapons factories. The factory was kept secret by the government until 1990. When Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a 1992 decree opening the area, Western scientists were able to gain access. The sediment of the lake bed is estimated to be composed almost entirely ...
Map of the Tobol basin. The Techa river ( Теча ) may be found to the left center, next to the regional ЧЕЛЯБИНСКАЯ ОБЛАСТЬ (Chelyabinsk Oblast) label. The Techa ( Russian : Те́ча , [ˈtʲet͡ɕə] ) is an eastward river on the eastern flank of the southern Ural Mountains noted for its nuclear contamination.
Environmental issues in Russia include pollution and erosion, and have impacts on people, wildlife and ecosystems.. Many of the issues have been attributed to policies that were made during the early Soviet Union, at a time when many officials felt that pollution control was an unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization, and, even though numerous attempts were made by ...
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2024 Nuclear incident at Khabarovsk, Russia; 2022–2023 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant leak; 2019 Radiation release during explosion and fire at Russian nuclear missile test site; 2017 Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017; 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when ...
The Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest in Europe, was captured by Russia shortly after it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. UN demands Russia withdraw from Europe's largest ...